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(Peppertree)
Producing pendent, stringed clusters of rosy-pink berries that can be eaten like peppercorns, the peppertree also has fine-textured leaves. An evergreen tree with a weeping and spreading canopy, it is native to the drier highlands of interior South America, in Peru and Bolivia. The young bark is smooth and gray, but with age becomes a papery to corky beige.
The peppery-scented leaves are long and linear, resembling those of a fern. Each leaf is made up of 19-41 narrow, short and glossy leaflets...
Forest & Kim Starr
(Brazilian Peppertree)
Though Brazilian peppertree has many ornamental qualities, including the scented, red berries that grace its branches, it has two major drawbacks: it is terribly invasive and it causes allergic reactions. An evergreen large shrub or small tree that forms a mass of branches and grows in thickets, it is native to Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil.
The compound leaves are an attractive, medium to dark green. Each of the approximately seven leaflets is the width of a finger with a winged midrib. On the...
